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minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down3·2 months agoAt my job unless you have 100% availability with 0 restrictions you cannot acquire more than 20 hours at minimum wage plus change. Not a surviving wage. It’s insane to me that employment isn’t given any nuance.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoBecause in the past ‘a job’ was enough. It’s not anymore but the boomers and Gen X don’t understand that.
minus-squaremeyotch@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoDon’t lump X with the boomers. We have had vastly different experiences.
minus-squarefern@lemmy.autism.placelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoYet y’all are pulling similar shit these days…
minus-squareSeptimaeuslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoStow that shit. They’re not the same and you know it. XYZ solidarity matters.
minus-squarefern@lemmy.autism.placelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThen why are they punching down.
minus-squareSeptimaeuslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThey aren’t. Pick your fights after November.
minus-squarebl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoCongratulations! You are employed, even if you are only working half the normal hours to get a luxurious starvation wage! I hope you are proud to be a golden star on this country’s incredible employment statistics! Uncle Sam loves ya for it!
minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoAaaaand on that note, I think it’s time I play Outer Worlds again.
At my job unless you have 100% availability with 0 restrictions you cannot acquire more than 20 hours at minimum wage plus change. Not a surviving wage.
It’s insane to me that employment isn’t given any nuance.
Because in the past ‘a job’ was enough. It’s not anymore but the boomers and Gen X don’t understand that.
Don’t lump X with the boomers. We have had vastly different experiences.
Yet y’all are pulling similar shit these days…
Stow that shit. They’re not the same and you know it. XYZ solidarity matters.
Then why are they punching down.
They aren’t. Pick your fights after November.
Congratulations! You are employed, even if you are only working half the normal hours to get a luxurious starvation wage!
I hope you are proud to be a golden star on this country’s incredible employment statistics! Uncle Sam loves ya for it!
Aaaaand on that note, I think it’s time I play Outer Worlds again.